Friday, October 03, 2014

Habermas in Rotterdam, October 23

On October 23, 2014, Jürgen Habermas will give a lecture in Rotterdam on "How Europe faces the challenge of transnationalising democracy"."In his lecture Habermas will elaborate on the question whether and how a democracy can be established that is not grounded in a nation-state. The European Union is a construct that is at once supranational and situated above the organisational level of a state. However, this construct is not supposed to enjoy either a monopoly on the legitimate use of force or ultimate decision-making authority. Can such a union satisfy the standards of democratic legitimacy that we are familiar with from nation-states?"Further information here.